Quick Plot Lisp no longer works...

[tyeelaw13]

Ok- so i wrote a lisp routine a long time back to be able to set all the variables to plot so that i don't have to go through the mind numbing task of making sure the print variables are all set the way i need them to be every time i print. Basically i made the lisp and then run it through a macro button so it's quick and easy. Until now...
My company just installed new printers and here's the issue i'm having. The new printer calls what used to be ledger now 11" x 17" - and when i try and enter that 11"x 17" because of the quotes- it kicks my lisp out the door.

Can you think of a way to work around this? Is there a way to put the 11" x 17" into a lisp routine so it doesn't force it to think it's part of the routine?

Here is the full lisp routine.
(DEFUN C:PLOT4000()(COMMAND "-plot" "y" "" "Ricoh 4000.pc3" "11"x17"" "i" "L" "N" "W" "0.000000,0.000000" "36.000000,24.000000" "Fit" "C" "Y" "$VI_HALF.ctb" "Y" "Y" "N" "N" "N" "N" "Y"))


Thank you in advance.

[Opie]

Have you tried using a forward slash '\' before the new quotes?

[tyeelaw13]

Got it- that worked. Thanks a ton!

[sigmaman88]

tyleelaw13,

I have read your thread and was woundering how did you create a macro button to apply your lisp routine. I'm having issues on how to create one along with a lisp program.

[irneb]

There's various ways. You could save the routine into its own LSP file, or add it to some other. Then you need to have that file loaded automatically, there's quite a few ways of doing that in itself. Otherwise you could add the routine to the ACAD.LSP or ACADDOC.LSP, or your CUI's MNL file. Then the macro would simply call the command, in this case PLOT4000

Or lastly (if it's a rather small amount of code) you could add the contents of the defun directly into the button's macro.

[sigmaman88]

Thank you, for your expalnation on how I can get it to work.